MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (March 31, 2007) --- The Milligan College softball team split an Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) doubleheader with Va. Intermont by scores of 4-3 (8 innings) and 6-0 on Saturday at Anglin Field.

The split moves the Lady Buffs to 21-15 overall and 3-1 in the AAC. V.I. moves to 11-5 overall and 4-2 in the AAC.

Game 1: Milligan 3 V.I. 4

The game remained scoreless until the eighth inning behind strong starting pitching performances from V.I.’s Celia Henline and Milligan’s Maegan Hambrick (Lexington, Ky.).

In the eighth, Intermont scored four runs on just one hit as some mishaps by the Milligan defense opened the door for the Lady Cobra offense.

The Lady Buffs responded in the bottom half of the eighth inning, when Laken Stewart (Pennington Gap, Va.) singled and Heather Poindexter (Germantown, N.C.) scored on a wild pitch. Megan Aldridge (Johnson City, Tenn.) then hit a two-run homer to bring Milligan within one.  The Lady Buffs were unable to complete the comeback however, and fell 4-3.

Game 2: Milligan 6 V.I. 0

Milligan responded in the second game of the doubleheader when Poindexter got the scoring started in the third inning. Poindexter doubled, stole third and was brought home by a Mallory Tincher (Jacksonville, Fla.) sac-fly.

Jessica Blevins (Elizabethton, Tenn.) homered in the fourth inning to extend the lead, and three runs in the third pushed it further. Holly Napier (Pennington Gap, Va.) scored in the sixth inning for the sixth and final run.

Blevins finished the game 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI and Leah White (Gray, Tenn.) was 2-for-3 with two RBI.

Jennifer Wise (Clermont, Fla.) got the win on the mound for the Lady Buffs, going six innings, scattering four hits and striking out three. Kayla Walker (Tracy, Calif.) tossed a scoreless ninth to finish the game for Milligan.

The Lady Buffs will challenge Montreat College in an AAC doubleheader on Tuesday, April 3, at 1 p.m. at Anglin Field.